Originally Posted by
bearisgray
With knowing what you know now - would you still use that fabric - or would you have replaced it with one that frayed a lot less?
It was a secondary fabric and matched perfectly. The smart thing I do now is look for those loosely woven fabrics and don't let them come home with me. I am a lover of batiks. They are very tightly woven and almost never fray. Most other cottons I have fray to a certain degree and I just deal with it by handling the fabric as little as possible and using the 2.0 seam stitch. I do not pre wash. I did that one time on one piece of fabric and I lost so much fabric due to raveling and like to have never gotten the wrinkles out of the fabric. Never again.
Edited to add: If I see too much raveling I will backstitch every seam so that it doesn't shred on the edges.